High school workshops face safety audits

Safety checks will be carried out in workshop classrooms in every Victorian state high school by the end of the year.

The audit of woodwork, metalwork and automotive classrooms follows recent injuries to two students.

The Department of Education has entered an agreement with WorkSafe to check the classrooms and compile a register of all equipment.

Stan Krpan from WorkSafe says it will be overseeing the department's safety checks.

"In these two cases students were injured by inadequately guarded machinery," he said.

"What the department has agreed to do is to have a look at all 300 secondary schools in response to that, examine the plant, make sure that the plant is safe and is either upgraded so that's it's safe or decommissioned if it can't be made safe."